According to SCOTUS math, corporations are 400% more important than people.

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Iíll close by mentioning just how well corporations are faring at the Supreme Court this term. The Constitutional Accountability Center has been keeping track and says the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has an 11Ė5 record before the court, bringing it to 32Ė8, or 80 percent, over the past three years.

I have been making this argument for some time, but it was interesting seeing it put into numbers.

_________________________A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich

According to SCOTUS math, corporations are 400% more important than people.

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Iíll close by mentioning just how well corporations are faring at the Supreme Court this term. The Constitutional Accountability Center has been keeping track and says the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has an 11Ė5 record before the court, bringing it to 32Ė8, or 80 percent, over the past three years.

...and while Hobby Lobby and lots of (all?) for-profit companies now have religious rights they never had before, at least the court thinks they still have to provide insurance coverage that pays for vaccinations and blood transfusions.

Yep-Christian Scientists and some other extreme Christian sects believe in just praying for the illness to be healed by divine intervention, or the laying on of hands. And then you've got your Jehovah's Witnesses that do not believe in using blood products. Wait until they start wanting to refuse blood transfusions, transplants and vaccinations-or in the case of faith healer religions, ANY kind of medical coverage for employees.

Ah, but I think Justice Alito did think this through. He has no interest in following the law, nor, as has already been demonstrated, did he believe that the Hobby Lobby decision would be "narrowly construed." Wheaton. That was pure fiction. He has taken a page from the CJ Roberts playbook: create a broad, sweeping pretext in one case pretending it is "just this once" ("We are aware of the problem of handgun violence in this country, and we take seriously the concerns raised by the many amici who believe that prohibition of handgun ownership is a solution."), then ram it down everyone's throat the next term. See, e.g. Heller/McDonald re:gun control. In this instance, it only took 3 days to set up the follow-on scenario. The Roberts ACA decision was another example, as the "rationale" for his position is much worse than just striking down the law. He had much bigger ambitions. The longer this cabal is in control, the worse for American law. It will take decades to undo the damage, if it can ever be done.

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_________________________A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich

_________________________A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich